Author: KMAN Staff
Judge David Stutzman heard testimony from crime scene investigators during the pre-trial hearing in the case of Derik Kesler Tuesday afternoon at the Riley County District Courthouse. Kesler, a 33-year-old Rossville man, is facing a vehicular homicide charge involving an accident that took the life of a 49-year-old Manhattan bicyclist. Mark Jilka suffered fatal injuries when Kesler struck him with his truck on June 26, 2014, at approximately 7:11 that evening while traveling on Kansas Highway 177 south of Manhattan. It’s alleged that Kesler was looking at his cell phone for an address when the accident occurred. Testimony from one…
A Westmoreland man facing attempted second degree murder and aggravated battery charges made a first appearance Tuesday in Pottawatomie county District court. Travis Conder, 28, was appointed counsel and a status hearing is set for September first. Conder is currently out of jail on $100,000 bond. Conder was arrested a few weeks ago after a shooting in Westmoreland. Pottawatomie County Sheriff’s deputies found two individuals who lived in the 100 block of South fourth Street in Westmoreland early on a Sunday morning, suffering from non-life threatening gunshot wounds. Conder was located outside the residence and was taken into custody without incident.
After two years of serving as the commanding general of the 1st Infantry Division and Fort Riley, Maj. Gen. Paul E. Funk II is set to hand over command in an Aug. 6 ceremony on the post’s Cavalry Parade Field. Maj. Gen. Wayne W. Grigsby Jr. will assume command of the “Big Red One” at the 10 a.m. event. Funk served as the 1st Inf. Div.’s deputy commanding general for maneuver for two years before taking command in May 2013. During a nine-month deployment to Southwest Asia, Funk led the division headquarters, which formed the core of Combined Joint Forces Land Component Command-Iraq. The command was responsible for…
Cooler weather helped firefighters slow the spread of a Northern California wildfire that scorched more than 90 square miles, destroyed at least two dozen homes and forced thousands to flee their homes.
The bombing of Hiroshima ushered in the nuclear age with a force never been seen before. 140,000 people were killed in an instant. On most other days, Kimie Mahara would have been one of them, but she lived to talk about it.
GOP candidates tackled the issue of the Middle East in New Hampshire on Monday night during a crowded and pointed preview of the 2016 primary season’s first full-fledged debate.
The Senate has blocked a Republican effort to shut off federal funds for a national abortion provider organization.
It was a busy morning on Monday’s edition of In Focus as Cathy spent the first half of the program visiting with Manhattan Senior Planner Chad Bunger and Shelley Carver, Community Development Manager with the Flint Hills Regional Council on the Wildcat Creek Watershed Resiliency Project. Later on in the program, we heard from Jim Foster and Myron Calhoun with the Manhattan Area Amateur Radio Society, as well as MHS alum and nationally known pianist, LeRoy Johnson. Tune in every weekday morning from 9 – 10 a.m. for conversations that matter to Manhattan.
Wamego Police found a deceased man in a garage in the 700 block of Maple Street Monday morning. The body has been identified as 31 year old Russel Hodges of Saint George, who was found shortly before 8 a.m. According to a news release from Wamego Police Chief Mike Baker, the nature of Hodges’ death is still under investigation pending an autopsy. At this time, Wamego Police do not feel the public is in danger.